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Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond (Kitchen Sink Press) #5
Flash Gordon - Volume Five 1941-1943: Between Worlds at War
This fifth volume collects the adventures of Flash, Dale Arden, and Doctor Zharkov on Planet Mongo from the strips from July 13, 1941 to July 4, 1943 (#393-496)
112 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1992
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Alex Raymond
720 books39 followersAlexander Gillespie Raymond was an American comic strip artist, best known for creating the comic Flash Gordon in 1934. The serial hit the silver screen three years later with Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers as the leading players. Other strips he drew include Secret Agent X-9, Rip Kirby, Jungle Jim, Tim Tyler's Luck, and Tillie the Toiler. Alex Raymond received a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1949 for his work on Rip Kirby.
Born in New Rochelle, New York, Alex Raymond attended Iona Prep on a scholarship and played on the Gaels' football team. He joined the US Marines Corp in 1944 and served in the Pacific theatre during World War II.
His realistic style and skillful use of "feathering" (a shading technique in which a soft series of parallel lines helps to suggest the contour of an object) has continued to be an inspiration for generations of cartoonists.
Raymond was killed in an automobile accident in Westport, Connecticut while driving with fellow cartoonist Stan Drake, aged 46, and is buried in St. John's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Darien, Connecticut.
During the accident which led to his untimely demise, he was said to have remarked (by the surviving passenger of the accident) on the fact that a pencil on the dashboard seemed to be floating in relation to the plummet of the vehicle.
He was the great-uncle of actors Matt Dillon and Kevin Dillon.
Born in New Rochelle, New York, Alex Raymond attended Iona Prep on a scholarship and played on the Gaels' football team. He joined the US Marines Corp in 1944 and served in the Pacific theatre during World War II.
His realistic style and skillful use of "feathering" (a shading technique in which a soft series of parallel lines helps to suggest the contour of an object) has continued to be an inspiration for generations of cartoonists.
Raymond was killed in an automobile accident in Westport, Connecticut while driving with fellow cartoonist Stan Drake, aged 46, and is buried in St. John's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Darien, Connecticut.
During the accident which led to his untimely demise, he was said to have remarked (by the surviving passenger of the accident) on the fact that a pencil on the dashboard seemed to be floating in relation to the plummet of the vehicle.
He was the great-uncle of actors Matt Dillon and Kevin Dillon.
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May 21, 2018
This was a fun collection. I really enjoyed the expansion of Mongo, with Flash, Dale and Zarkov briefly back on earth and having a military adventure before heading back to a whole new continent on Mongo!
Loved the designs of the Gryphs, Brazor’s hover tanks and the zero G fun of the Magnetic Mountains.
Loved the designs of the Gryphs, Brazor’s hover tanks and the zero G fun of the Magnetic Mountains.
September 3, 2013
Raymond must have had a new writer for these strips, for some of the usual cliches are missing, though, unfortunately, not all. The two stories begin with Flash and company back on Earth for a battle against a WW2ish dictator. This may be the best FG story of them all. Then, alas, it is back to Mongo for another mongoloid adventure, just with fewer cliches. Alex Raymond's art is beautiful, as always, and the stories are improved. Not bad.
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